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Don’t touch that code, it might break !!! At Moonpig we have legacy systems which need to be refactored to improve our architecture, and enable a more scalable solution. As with many companies, lots of this code was written such a long time ago, and can…

Here’s the first of our Meet the Team series. This week, it’s Jack. Jack joined Moonpig on a graduate scheme in the App Engineering team, and he’s going to tell you a little bit about himself and what he’s been up to since he joined.…

Today is the last day of our first ever Moonshots event, a week in which the whole company was free to work on an innovation project of their own. Five days ago 18 teams started work. It’s been a hectic week, but what has actually…

We’re now 4 days in to our Moonshots event, a week in which the entire company is dedicated to new innovation. Friday ended on a real high, with 12 of our 18 teams doing a show ‘n’ tell; what they’d achieved in such a short space of…

On Wednesday we kicked off our first ever “Moonshots” event. Whilst hackathons have a long history here, this is the first time the whole company has had a week to focus solely on innovation. Today we’re half way through, so it’s a good time to check-in with…

Yesterday morning everyone at Moonpig downed tools to focus on a week of innovation, or “Moonshots”. 24 hours in there’s a great buzz in the office; everyone’s working hard but it feels different, it feels exciting! Moonpig is a brand founded on disruptive innovation, but…

Here at Moonpig we’re taking a week off from the roadmap, putting business as usual on the back burner, and focusing entirely on innovation! A few weeks ago, we asked everyone in the company to come up with “Moonshots” – bold new ideas to explore. Moonshots could…

Over the weekend of Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd of May, Silicon Milkroundabout is back at the fantastic Old Truman Brewery in the heart of Shoreditch. Silicon Milkroundabout is London’s premier Tech Job Fair, and tech companies from across the country will be out in force looking for great candidates…

We had our group 24 hour Hackathon recently, and one of the big themes which a lot of the teams chose to work on was Chat Bots. Our Team, Piggy Wizard, created a Chat Bot using the Microsoft Bot Framework to search for products on…

We recently created a new single page application that was to be hosted as an azure web app, and would be required to provide fast loading of pre-defined searchable profiles about different products. Since this was to be a cloud hosted application, we opted to…